Huff: Assembly Speaker like Arsonist who Joins Fire Department

Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff, who represents Monrovia,  issued this statement today in response to legislation proposed by Assembly Speaker John Perez to cut college tuition and fees for students from middle class families:

Someone should remind the Speaker that it was Democrats that enacted a partisan majority-vote budget that cut $1.5 billion from UC and CSU – without a single Republican vote. It seems to me that this is similar to an arsonist that sets fires and then joins the volunteer fire department. Republicans have long argued that the low income students are heavily subsidized and that the UC and CSU are relative bargains for the more affluent students. It’s always the middle class that gets squeezed as legislative Democrats continue to prioritize welfare programs and public employee salaries and pensions. Senate Republicans continue to believe that working together in a bi-partisan fashion to solve problems is the best approach. Let’s first enact the Governor’s pension reforms and balance the state budget then we can better assess the need for changes in tax policy and higher education.

 

From Huff press release

 

- Brad Haugaard